10 best-selling nonfiction books like Groundbreakers: How Obama's 2.2 Million Volunteers Transformed Campaigning in America by Elizabeth McKenna

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Groundbreakers: How Obama's 2.2 Million Volunteers Transformed Campaigning in America

By: Elizabeth McKenna

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Much has been written about the historic nature of the Obama campaign. The multi-year, multi-billio…

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1. Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

By: Jocko Willink , Leif Babin

4.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestseller Sent to the most violent battlefield in Iraq, Jocko Willink and Le… read more

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  • nonfiction
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2. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

By: C.S. Lewis , Pauline Baynes

4.09

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

NARNIA... the world of wicked dragons and magic spells, where the very best is brought out of even … read more

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"Courage, dear heart."

-C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

"Adventures are never fun while you're having them."

-C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

"Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people."

-C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."

-C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

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3. The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

By: Brené Brown

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

New York Times best-selling author and professor Brene Brown offers a powerful and inspiring book t… read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. How Organizations Develop Activists: Civic Associations and Leadership in the 21st Century

By: Hahrie Han

2.00

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Why are some civic associations better than others at getting--and keeping--people involved in acti… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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5. Ogilvy on Advertising

By: David Ogilvy

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A candid and indispensable primer on all aspects of advertising from the man Time has called "the m… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. The Power and the Glory

By: John Updike , Graham Greene

3.13

Format: 192 pages,

How does goodspoil, and how can badbe redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, G… read more

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7. The Charterhouse of Parma

By: Robert Andrew Parker , Richard Howard , Stendhal , Arthur Schurig

3.79

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

Richard Howard's exuberant and definitive rendition of Stendhal's stirring tale has brought about t… read more

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"Mutluluğu uzaklarda aramaya kalkmanın ne anlamı var, işte burada, elimin altında!"

-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma

"Hay que confesar que había días en que la condesa no dirigía la palabra a nadie; era vista paseando bajo los altos castaños, hundida en sombríos ensueños; era demasiado inteligente para no sentir a v…"

-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma

"Men siden året 1635, da Milano-provinsen ble underlagt spanjolene, disse tause, mistenksomme, hovmodige herrer som alltid fryktet opprør, hadde livsgleden vært borte. Folk tok etter herskernes livsfo…"

-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma

"El lejano sonido de la campana de un pueblecito escondido bajo los árboles conmueve nuestra imaginación. Estos sones que las aguas transportan dulcificándolos adquieren un tinte de dulce melancolía y…"

-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma

8. Leonardo da Vinci

By: Walter Isaacson

3.72

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A #1 New York Timesbestseller "A powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life...a study in creat… read more

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9. Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign

By: Jonathan Allen , Amie Parnes

4.23

Format: 400 pages,

It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton … read more

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10. The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.91

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The Horse and his Boy is a stirring and dramatic fantasy story that finds a young boy named Shasta … read more

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"Do not dare not to dare."

-C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

"No one can teach riding so well as a horse"

-C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

"Even a walk will get us somewhere sometime."

-C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

"Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!"

-C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

11. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

By: Steven Pressfield , Robert McKee

4.08

Format: None pages,

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12. The Guns of August

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

4.18

Format: 658 pages, Kindle Edition

The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings"

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

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13. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

By: David Epstein

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think. Plenty of experts… read more

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  • nonfiction
"We learn who we are only by living, and not before."

-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

"Repetition, it turned out, was less important than struggle."

-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

"If we treated careers more like dating, nobody would settle down so quickly."

-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

"mental meandering and personal experimentation are sources of power, and head starts are overrated"

-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

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14. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

By: Jack Weatherford

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The first key to leadership is self-control."

-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

"Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others."

-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

"A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words."

-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

"The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to de…"

-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

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15. There There

By: Tommy Orange

3.98

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525520375. Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel foll… read more

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"Everything is new and doomed."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"...nothing is original, everything comes from something that came before, which was once nothing. Everything is new and doomed."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"We've all been through a lot we don't understand in a world made to either break us or make us so hard we can't break even when it's what we need most to do."

-Tommy Orange, There There

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16. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

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"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

Cover of The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones

17. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

By: Nikole Hannah-Jones

4.62

Format: 590 pages, Hardcover

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a revealing vision of the American past and present. … read more

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18. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. Groundbreakers: How Obama's 2.2 Million Volunteers Transformed Campaigning in America

By: Elizabeth McKenna

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Much has been written about the historic nature of the Obama campaign. The multi-year, multi-billio… read more

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7 Best buisness books like Ogilvy on Advertising by David Ogilvy

Transform Your Habits

Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This: A Guide to Creating Great Ads

Luke Sullivan

4.64

Transform Your Habits

All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World

Seth Godin

4.61

Transform Your Habits

Ogilvy on Advertising

David Ogilvy

3.71

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The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk

Al Ries , Jack Trout

3.54

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